Niomi Panshiko

Well I have started the Slim fast diet, of about 1500 calories a day of very small meals.

Discovering my old 43 things account is rather repressing. 5 months later, they cut half my hours and I still never found a new job. I am moving to a bigger city soon where finding a job will be easier, but I still feel like I failed myself.

My husband and I are moving to Ft. Wayne this month. It’s a studio, but because of it’s small size I feel like we actually have the means to decorate it and make it look nice.

http://www.betterthanyourboyfriend.com/you-are-what-you-practice.htm

I was sitting around this weekend thinking about practice. I had just read an article that said that to get good at something one had to spend ten years practicing. Studies show that practicing is the one strong predictor of success in nearly any field.

Then I thought, “what am I practicing?”. I’m practicing eating healthy. That’s good. I’m practicing rapping. Good too. After a nice long pat on the back I thought of a more important question. What am I not practicing?

I realized that every time I practice a bad habit, I’m enforcing it and making it harder to break. I guess that’s obvious, but for some reason it hit me like a ton of bricks. I see myself, down the road, being someone who keeps his living space really clean, pays bills as soon as they come in, gets ready fast in the morning, and doesn’t procrastinate. Every day I continue to not do those things I’m making it harder to start doing them.

And what about this mystical 10 years? I’m sure that’s accurate for things like sports, being experts on topics, ninja fighting, etc., but some things don’t need to take that long. When people talk about personal development they talk about slow and gradual change. Why? I can be a proactive tidy person for one day – anyone can. And if I do something one day, I can do it the next day too. It’s like when I started eating healthy, or when I went vegan. I just changed my beliefs on the matter, and that changed my actions.

In a second my beliefs changed to be repulsed by my previous behavior. Having a messy house wasn’t about having a messy house – it was about clinging to old habits that detract from my life.

I got up, and did 6 loads of laundry – enough to wash every article of clothing I have. I cleaned up the boxes of stuff that I brought over when I moved in. I did all the dishes and scrubbed the sink. I went into my bathroom and scrubbed the counter and sink. I (with the assistance of the lovely Evan) hung some prints I had bought three years ago. I vacuumed everywhere, including the floor of the closet. I went through my computer and deleted old files, combined iterations of backups, and uploaded 4gb of important files to my online backup.

The weird part is that I was enjoying it. Every load of laundry made me happier. Organizing my closet made me feel good. Getting on the computer didn’t appeal to me – I wanted to do all these things that I normally hated doing.

My new approach is to instantly develop new practices. When you decide that it’s ok for a change to take years it WILL take years, or it may never get done at all. It becomes too easy to put it off. When you institute a new practice and demand that you stick to it from day one you feel empowered, excited, and immediately accountable. Try it!

I’m at 18! Woohoo!

I’ve already applied to AppleBee’s, East of Chicago, and a pet store last week.

This week I applied to Subway, Hallmark, Peebles, Coach & Horses (local restaurant) and some others I can’t remember. Hopefully, I can get a job at one of them.

My current job is causing a lot of stress. The owner of the franchise is starting to single me out and humiliate me, and this week I had 9 hours cut. I feel like I need to get out of this situation as soon as I can.

A few years ago, I had an obsession with living in an RV. I bought a tiny little plastic RV with re-arrangeable furniture, I read a book about full-time RVing cover to cover, I collected brochures and fantasized about the models I liked most. This RV has reminded me of that dream; look how beautiful it is inside. The rig even runs on vegetable oil. They pick up old grease from restaurants and run the engine on it.

Check out their page on livelightlytour.com

CCNA: (certified cisco network assistant) I’d be managing networks for small businesses.
Nurses’ Assistant or Nurse: tough jobs, not something I think I’d enjoy, but I’d always have a job and I’d make more money than if I were trained in nothing.
Massage Therapist: I have always wanted to take classes in this for my husband’s sake, but I could make a career out of it.

1) Trash
2) Dishes
3) Tidying & organization
4) Vacuuming & dusting

I have 3 or 4 stars right now. Haha. My husband has 49.

Since my paycheck isn’t enough to cover our living expenses, we’re also living off of our savings account. If we can rent out our spare room, we may break even.

Despite our ex-roommate in Columbus being a complete mooch who owes us $300 and could hardly pay the rent, we felt guilty bailing on the lease early. Since he doesn’t have his own PC, I loaned him my tower since I had just purchased my laptop. I’m sincerely regretting this decision, like our money I don’t think we’ll ever see that thing again.